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postage uk £1.50 pm me if interested in anything The Mohawks-Wicked Lady UK Supreme ex condition £30 Derrick Morgan-Moon Hop best copy ive seen ex condition £30 Baba Brooks- King Size uk Dr Bird..........record and label ex cond small name under matrix £35 Baba Brooks- First Session uk Dr Bird ....Ex minus cond £40 Untouchables-Tighten UpRoy Shirley Good Ambition UK Trojan crown top vg condition light surface marks £20 Stranger Cole and Patsy-Tonight uk Dr Bird Ex minus £35 The Etheopeans -The Whip UK Dr Bird vinyl vg no centre writing on label.... £15 Al and The Vibrators-Move Up...Uk Dr Bird Vinyl ex minus.....ink squiggles on label bit like the youtube one and a bit of felt £35 Hazel and The Jolly Boys-Stop Them..UK Dr Bird vinyl ex minus squiggles again on label in ink £25 Ken Boothe Fatty Fatty/Mother Word UK Studio One Ex Cond £40 Roland Alphonso-Look Away Ska ex cond £30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYfh-0jGeC4

Paypal to kevin.johansen@btinternet.com.PM me if you fancy anything.Postage 1.50 signed for uk.... Curtis Blandon-In The Long Run US Wand demo ex cond £140.00 Ethics-Look At Me Now US Vent....vinyl ex ...label very slight ring wear £35 Bobby Patterson-Right On Jody US Paula ex minus £25 Chuck Bernard-The Other Side Of My Mid US Zodiac £25 Martha Starr-No Part Time Love US Thelma ex minus £90 Singing Sam-Move It Baby US Dan-Dy Ex cond £35 Freddie Scott-I'll Be Gone US Shout Ex Cond £40 The Attractions-Mamas Baby US B and B Ex £ 30 Sandra Richardson-Stay Here With Me US Inter Soul red label £35 James Galt A Most Unusual Feeling US Aurora Ex Cond £40 Merits-The Arabian Jerk USA Bandstand Ex Cond £40

Its the equivalent of a Ramones t shirt....love Bonzo Goes To Bitburg....reply ehhh.

The Whos first lp is great as is the Kinks...Stones one the jurys out on although i love Satanic Majesties and prefer it to Pepper...id rather hear The Open Mind lp above any of it though...my amusing story is im deejaying to a full floor in london and ive got Oh Happy Day on and im looking at a girl dancing...i then play Jackie Moores Heart Be Still...cue girl walking over....do you have to play this seventies shit!! @.!!

Ive a load of old Echoes from that time as well....loads of oldies nighters,rare soul nighters,modern nights and great record reviews ...was it Brady Beat.I will get some scanned up on youtube for the next tape which is a sales tape from 88.

Just heard Brian Rae say biggest sound of 1975 Bits n Pieces...Mixcloud here https://www.mixcloud.com/kevin-johansen/live-wigan-casino-tape/

Will mixcloud it.The Carstairs gets played at the end and the tape stops.....still can't get over Paintbox ...that must have been a Torch sound

Dug this tape out to upload....a live Wigan tape.....can anybody date it...more commercial sounds earlier on and later in the tape it sounds like Brian Rae deejaying.....I'm Getting Ready For Love by Paintbox gets an airing....and scratchy sounds bizarre!!

Absolutely massive on the mod scene prior to it succumbing to sike and freakbeat.In 85/86...everyone had copies............bought mine for £5.....just checked and its an original...

My problem is i collect the lot,northern,jazz,freakbeat,latin,psych and library lps.Thank god my compulsive buying was years ago.I rob Peter to pay Paul sell some to buy some....just sorted 200 ska/reggae doubles inc crabs,Dr Birds,Escort etc.I managed to get a few today in the local charity shop....one of them was Love Dimension-I found out on uk Black Bear from 78 in a uk Revolution rocksteady sleeve!!

Heres the mixcloud..........i used to get these shows sent to me by an ex twisted wheel deejay living in Manchester.....some great record digging stories. https://www.mixcloud.com/kevin-johansen/richard-searling-and-kev-robertsnorthern-soul-collecting/

Will get it uploaded to mixcloud...are we allowed to post from mixcloud on here?

Heres another show from another old tape.........some great record digging reminiscing by Richard on this one and a phone in with Tim Brown and his everythings a thousand pound record run down......

My apologies ive done my own legs on Sammy Campbell

The eighties ....an era of wedges,pegs,Kevin Webster moustaches and the holdall being dumped fpr a toolbag...

Missed one on.here a month ago at £ 150.... I have £ 150 quid now if anyone wants to sell me one.

Heres another one with Ginger

Sammy campbell.. i never thought....been after it for ages.Thinl ive made my job even harder now....doh.Lead singer with Del Larks.

Ive a boxfull of tapes most are unsorted...there are a few with prices next to them...ie sales tapes.I darent look at them.Tape swapping was massive wirh a thirst for new sounds.I never see anyone with 50 count record boxes mooching around now.There was only one lad at Stoke i saw last year...but a box of boots.Is it me or was everyone into records then...ie collecting selling trading.I suppose if you were there then you had made an effort as it was still underground and word of mouth...no films ....no Vogue catwalks.....no press.Got a few videos as well Bankhall Miners and Burnley...re Greg Fay it was him living above the pub.Hes doung alrihht working for Ridley Scott.Him and Danny were at the Dome alldayer early last year...i told him.Eamsy had a Chandlers and i ended up brokering a deal....once a record man always a record man.

I remember me and my girlfriend getting a lift from Greg Fays place by Danny Huff and Roly.He was living above a pub and his place was full of old trousers he had imported from the USA.Danny was selling mobile phones at the time he was ahead of the game there as i didnt get one until 94.....the new thing to have and he had an impressive company car....tis a pity he couldnt control it as at one point the dual carriageway went into a single lane and Danny was that busy jabbering with his neck turned to me in the back that he didnt notice the coach ...lights flashing coming towards us.It was a great weekend though.I have always been a tempo terrorist and i do like Colins set....but just not the stuff i would get off on dancefloor wise.Butchs set is great...ive had a few copies of the Mike Jemison and been after the Sammy Campbell for a while.Tony Troutman was played everywhere at the time esp at Modern Soul gigs.I should have taped Clarkies set but i was in the radio room at that point with him.It was different then as it was just flyers and buying Echoes....for one page! I used to rip those pages out and still have a pile of them...

Here's one i taped in 84.....Chris Kings brought Eddie Holman and he played live at Tiffanies in Newcastle.........cue me taping this on the amstrad and racing up to Newcastle.....funny comments from Dave Brown re the loss of soul music late Wigan.........northern soul was dead in the eighties...........mmmmmmmm i don't think so.Dug it out after deejaying with Chris on boxing day in Middlesbrough.

Its a bit mixed up.....this should be part 2

Just to clarify Im offering to do similar radio shows that you have on tape to cd/youtube...not offering to cd the show........thanks

Currently doing an Eddie Holman interview he did for radio Tees in 84 with ChrIs King...I taped it then had to rush out to get the bus to Newcastle.

Found another tape from this weekender.Anybody know who the scottish deejay is....not keen on his sounds.Butch has a slight dig at the deejays going back to the fifties.Anyone who as tapes of radio stuff on tape and wantsto see them on youtube and have copies on cd just pm me and i will transfer them for you.